Ms. Barnes now leads me to a large, red textile from the tip of Sumatra.
On July 16, West Sumatra governor Muchlis Ibrahim sent a letter to the central authorities.
Aceh in Sumatra was the first area to convert to Islam, in medieval times.
Although the Supreme Court has ruled in favour of Imperial, Sumatra Tobacco has launched an appeal.
Local independence wars are also being waged in Aceh, in north Sumatra, and in Irian Jaya.
On Wednesday another earthquake, well over 7 magnitude, was reported off Sumatra, in Indonesia.
"The students were entered by a third party, " claims an activist at the University of North Sumatra.
The earthquake that rocked the west coast of Sumatra on the night of March 28th was not entirely unexpected.
Officials have noted the problem of getting timely information to people who live in remote areas of coastal Sumatra.
In West Sumatra, officials registered about 2, 800 infants under five as severely malnourished.
First came the region-wide financial collapse and environmental disaster the haze of smog from forest fires on Sumatra and Borneo.
Hundreds of fires are burning, mainly in East Kalimantan, but also in Sumatra.
The situation in Aceh, on the northern tip of Sumatra, is equally troubling.
In return its members (some 300, 000 in north Sumatra) provide protection services to private homes or businesses in the area.
That was only the beginning of the horror for people living near the Sunda Strait, which separates Sumatra and Java.
The earthquake measured 8.6 on the Richter scale, occurred 434km south-west of Banda Aceh Province in Sumatra at 08.38 UTC.
For centuries, the forest dwellers of Sumatra and Borneo have been slashing and burning to clear land to grow crops.
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It was taken in Gunung Leuser national park, Sumatra, where wild orang-utan populations have fallen by 50% in the past decade.
In 1883, a massive eruption of a volcano on the island of Krakatoa in the Sundra Strait between Java and Sumatra began.
The earthquake happened along a line where the Earth's Indo-Australian and Eurasian tectonic plates grind together, in the waters west of Sumatra.
Sources in West Sumatra claim higher-ups gave staff a per diem to demonstrate, and paid for protesters to visit Abeng's office in Jakarta.
In Padang, an impoverished industrial town in Sumatra, local officials have simply seized a cement plant that the central government wanted to privatise.
One of the loudest voices against privatization belonged to Azwar Anas, a retired general, past two-time governor of West Sumatra and ex-CEO of Padang.
He and his family still own a palm-oil estate and mill in Sumatra and he and his brother have a pulp mill in Kalimantan.
When the forest is on peat, as in much of central Kalimantan, Sumatra and Papua, the cost of Indonesia's messy land use becomes epic.
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Indonesia's Tempo Interactive, a media outlet based in Jakarta, had trouble reaching its correspondent in the West Sumatra city, according to journalist Purwani Diyah Prabandari.
Having failed to elicit any interest from the police and the prosecutors in the shady doings of West Sumatra's provincial parliament, he alerted the media.
In the movies, a group of explorers and filmmakers travel to Skull Island, a mysterious spot near Sumatra, in order to investigate rumors of giant beasts.
Shariah laws in force in a few conservative areas, such as Indonesia's Southern Sulawesi and West Sumatra regions, haven't captured the imagination of the wider public.
Among them: ethnic clashes in West Java, a riot following an earthquake in central Sumatra, and an anti-pollution protest that led to riots in Pasaruan, East Java.
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